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November 22, 2004
HD's Link To Other Diseases
I've said for some time that Huntington's Disease research, directly and indirectly, has advanced research for many other diseases. From an article on a recent study:
All of these diseases - Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's - have the same unusual phenomena. Proteins - completely different proteins in each disease - assemble into ordered aggregates, amyloid fibrils, so that a vital organ, usually the brain, is crisscrossed by these structures,” Hall said. “This tells us that the problem has something to do with the general nature of proteins rather than with the specifics of the particular disease-associated proteins.”
Posted by Dave at November 22, 2004 06:17 AM
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